The Forum

The Forum

253 episodes

The programme that explains the present by exploring the past.


Podcasts

The story of throwaway living

Published: Dec. 16, 2023, 7:06 a.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 32 seconds

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Political parties and us

Published: Nov. 18, 2023, 7:06 a.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 39 seconds

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What makes a good boss?

Published: Oct. 21, 2023, 6:06 a.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 39 seconds

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The joy and sorrow of roads

Published: Sept. 16, 2023, 6:06 a.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 18 seconds

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Pets and us

Published: Aug. 19, 2023, 6:06 a.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 41 seconds

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The evolution of teenagers

Published: July 15, 2023, 8 a.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 22 seconds

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Global mass tourism

Published: June 17, 2023, 6:06 a.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 37 seconds

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A deep dive into deepfakes

Published: May 20, 2023, 9 a.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 16 seconds

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How the mobile phone changed everything

Published: April 15, 2023, 10:06 a.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 38 seconds

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The submarine: Stealth machine

Published: April 13, 2023, 6:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 19 seconds

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Hazel Scott: Jazz star and barrier breaker

Published: April 6, 2023, 6:06 a.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 12 seconds

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The bittersweet tale of cocoa

Published: March 30, 2023, 6:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 25 seconds

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The dam builders

Published: March 23, 2023, 7:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 27 seconds

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Alexander the Great or not so great?

Published: March 16, 2023, 7:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 29 seconds

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Rituals: Our anchors in a changing world

Published: March 9, 2023, 7:06 a.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 48 seconds

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Tropicalia: the movement that defied Brazils dictatorship

Published: March 2, 2023, 7:06 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 18 seconds

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How the shipping container changed the world

Published: Feb. 23, 2023, 11:28 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 57 seconds

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Neanderthals: Meet the relatives

Published: Feb. 16, 2023, 12:15 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 14 seconds

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Cavalry and code-breaking: The Polish-Soviet war

Published: Feb. 9, 2023, 7:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 40 seconds

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How we work: Redesigning the office

Published: Feb. 2, 2023, 10 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 48 seconds

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When money died: The world's worst inflation

Published: Jan. 26, 2023, 12:01 a.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 41 seconds

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The writer Rachel Carson who fought insecticide wars

Published: Jan. 19, 2023, 7:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 2 seconds

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Why do we have a seven-day week?

Published: Jan. 12, 2023, 12:01 a.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 9 seconds

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Forugh Farrokhzad: A trailblazing voice for women in Iran

Published: Jan. 5, 2023, 7:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 12 seconds

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The Cynics: Counter-culture from Ancient Greece

Published: Dec. 29, 2022, 7:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 35 seconds

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Calories: How to fuel a human

Published: Dec. 22, 2022, 12:01 a.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 54 seconds

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Belarus: The crossroads of Eastern Europe

Published: Dec. 15, 2022, 7:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 40 seconds

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Margaret Sanger: Mother of birth control

Published: Dec. 8, 2022, 12:01 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 45 seconds

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Alice Guy: The first female movie mogul

Published: Dec. 1, 2022, 7:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 35 seconds

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The Epic of Gilgamesh: A quest for immortality

Published: Nov. 24, 2022, 7:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 27 seconds

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Uruguay 1930: The first football World Cup

Published: Nov. 17, 2022, 12:01 a.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 23 seconds

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Moths: The story of the butterfly of the night

Published: Nov. 10, 2022, 7:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 39 seconds

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The end of civilisation: Bronze Age collapse

Published: Nov. 3, 2022, 12:01 a.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 48 seconds

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Suleyman the Magnificent: longest-reigning Ottoman sultan

Published: Oct. 20, 2022, 6:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 26 seconds

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William Cobbett: Champion of rural workers

Published: Oct. 11, 2022, 11:26 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 41 seconds

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How the paparazzi transformed photojournalism

Published: Oct. 6, 2022, 6:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 33 seconds

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The Sun: Myths and magnetism

Published: Sept. 29, 2022, 6:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 25 seconds

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A forgotten founder of climate science: Eunice Newton Foote

Published: Sept. 21, 2022, 11:01 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 25 seconds

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Dreams: Prophecy, propaganda and psychoanalysis

Published: Sept. 14, 2022, 11:01 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 47 seconds

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Brazil's Palmares: A beacon of freedom

Published: Sept. 1, 2022, 6:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 42 seconds

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Bluegrass: Virtuoso music of Appalachia

Published: Aug. 25, 2022, 6:06 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 12 seconds

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The Art of War: Ancient Chinese guide to victory

Published: Aug. 17, 2022, 11:01 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 57 seconds

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Gandhi: Architect of Indian independence

Published: Aug. 10, 2022, 11:01 p.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 26 seconds

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Making scents: The story of perfume

Published: Aug. 4, 2022, 6:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 33 seconds

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Eleonora Duse: The first great modern actress

Published: July 28, 2022, 6:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 41 seconds

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La Malinche: Mexico's great 'traitor'

Published: July 20, 2022, 11:01 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 6 seconds

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Taras Shevchenko: The slave who became a symbol of Ukrainian independence

Published: July 14, 2022, 6:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 33 seconds

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The unstoppable orange

Published: July 7, 2022, 6:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 44 seconds

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Radio waves and plants: The life of JC Bose

Published: June 30, 2022, 6:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 18 seconds

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Samurai: Japans elite warrior class

Published: June 23, 2022, 6:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 20 seconds

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Ice cream: A cool history

Published: June 15, 2022, 11:01 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 48 seconds

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The Popol Vuh: Central American epic that survived Spanish conquest

Published: June 9, 2022, 6 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 7 seconds

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The Koryo Kingdom: Medieval dynasty that united Korea

Published: June 2, 2022, 6:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 37 seconds

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Insulin: The discovery that transformed diabetic care

Published: May 26, 2022, 6:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 10 seconds

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Eunuchs and empires

Published: May 19, 2022, 6:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 26 seconds

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Vikings and their quest for silver

Published: May 12, 2022, 6:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 7 seconds

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Fertiliser and poison gas: The legacy of chemist Fritz Haber

Published: May 4, 2022, 11:01 p.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 58 seconds

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Emperor Nero: Bad boy of Ancient Rome

Published: April 28, 2022, 6:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 18 seconds

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Mirror Mirror on the wall: The history of the looking glass

Published: April 21, 2022, 6:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes

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Kwame Nkrumah: Ghanas Pan-African idealist

Published: April 14, 2022, 6:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 24 seconds

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The Truman Doctrine: Beginnings of the Cold War

Published: April 6, 2022, 11:01 p.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 35 seconds

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Margaret Fuller: Early feminist and war correspondent

Published: March 31, 2022, 6:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 29 seconds

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Money: From coin to cryptocurrency

Published: March 20, 2022, 2:06 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 42 seconds

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Pinocchio: The real story of the mischievous wooden puppet

Published: March 17, 2022, 7:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 17 seconds

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Franz Liszt: Hungarian pianist and painter in sound

Published: Feb. 24, 2022, 7:06 a.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 29 seconds

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Joseph Heller's Catch-22: A novel of twisted logic and absurd bureaucracy

Published: Feb. 17, 2022, 7:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 36 seconds

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Sofya Kovalevskaya: The eventful life of a maths pioneer

Published: Feb. 10, 2022, 7:06 a.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 34 seconds

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Machu Picchu: Secrets of a forgotten city

Published: Feb. 3, 2022, 7:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 32 seconds

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Pleasure and pain: The philosophy of Jeremy Bentham

Published: Jan. 27, 2022, 7:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 29 seconds

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Copper: From mining to microprocessors

Published: Jan. 20, 2022, 6:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 17 seconds

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Writer Agatha Christie: Murder and mystery

Published: Jan. 13, 2022, 7:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 24 seconds

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Harry Houdini: Escape artist and showman

Published: Dec. 30, 2021, 7:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 23 seconds

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Antarctic Treaty: Protecting the icy continent

Published: Dec. 23, 2021, 7:06 a.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 59 seconds

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Don Quixote: Spanish masterpiece

Published: Dec. 16, 2021, 7:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 35 seconds

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Algae: Slime life

Published: Dec. 9, 2021, 7:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 23 seconds

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Laskarina Bouboulina, the mother of modern Greece

Published: Nov. 25, 2021, 7:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 39 seconds

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Mary Somerville: The queen of 19th-Century science

Published: Nov. 18, 2021, 7:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 31 seconds

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The Malayan Emergency

Published: Nov. 11, 2021, 7:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 26 seconds

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The Devils: Dostoevskys novel of political evil

Published: Nov. 4, 2021, 7:06 a.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 4 seconds

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A focus on spectacles

Published: Oct. 28, 2021, 6:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 43 seconds

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Sarah Bernhardt: Queen of stage and screen

Published: Oct. 21, 2021, 10:21 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 40 seconds

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A dirty history of diamonds

Published: Oct. 14, 2021, 9 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 40 seconds

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Sushi: The Japanese dish with an ancient tradition

Published: Sept. 30, 2021, 9 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 53 seconds

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Toni Morrison: The legacy of a literary legend

Published: Sept. 23, 2021, 9 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 38 seconds

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Algorithms: From the ancients to the internet

Published: Sept. 16, 2021, 6:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 20 seconds

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Louder! How the electric guitar conquered popular music

Published: Sept. 9, 2021, 6:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 39 seconds

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Luigi Pirandello: Italian dramatist who brought chaos to the stage

Published: Sept. 2, 2021, 6:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 6 seconds

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Mars: A history of the Red Planet

Published: Aug. 26, 2021, 6:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 12 seconds

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A radiant light: The Indonesian poet Amir Hamzah

Published: Aug. 19, 2021, 6:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 50 seconds

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Sailing by the stars: The pioneering voyages of David Lewis

Published: Aug. 12, 2021, 6:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 29 seconds

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Inside the mind of crime writer Patricia Highsmith

Published: Aug. 5, 2021, 9 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 36 seconds

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Ibn Sina: The Persian polymath

Published: Aug. 2, 2021, 8 a.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 25 seconds

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The Panama Canal: The real story behind the engineering triumph

Published: July 29, 2021, 6:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 18 seconds

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Ida Pfeiffer: 19th Century globetrotter

Published: July 22, 2021, 6:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 31 seconds

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Emile Berliner, inventor of the gramophone

Published: July 8, 2021, 6:06 a.m.
Duration: 40 minutes

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Tracing the roots of ancient trees

Published: July 1, 2021, 9 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 46 seconds

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The Wizard of Oz: A homegrown American fairy tale

Published: June 24, 2021, 6:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 16 seconds

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Falconry: The history of hunting with birds of prey

Published: June 17, 2021, 6:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 23 seconds

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Aramaic: An imperial language without an empire

Published: June 10, 2021, 6:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 36 seconds

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X-rays: New ways of seeing

Published: June 3, 2021, 6:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 45 seconds

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Machiavelli, master of power

Published: May 27, 2021, 6:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 2 seconds

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The birth of the modern car

Published: May 20, 2021, 6:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 36 seconds

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Ukulele - a history of Hawaii's national instrument

Published: May 13, 2021, 6:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 13 seconds

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Tadeusz Kosciuszko, groundbreaking fort builder

Published: May 6, 2021, 6:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 37 seconds

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The census: A snapshot of life

Published: April 29, 2021, 6:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 28 seconds

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Unravelling the history of knitting

Published: April 22, 2021, 9 a.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 27 seconds

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One Hundred Years of Solitude: The story of Latin America

Published: April 15, 2021, 6:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 18 seconds

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Rabindranath Tagore: The Bard of Bengal

Published: April 8, 2021, 6:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 33 seconds

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Pauline Viardot: 19th-Century diva

Published: April 1, 2021, 9 a.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 50 seconds

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The One Thousand and One Nights

Published: March 25, 2021, 7:06 a.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 13 seconds

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Adventures with dentures: The story of dentistry

Published: March 18, 2021, 10 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 29 seconds

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BR Ambedkar: The Dalit hero of India

Published: March 11, 2021, 7:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 47 seconds

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Making waves: the history of swimming

Published: March 4, 2021, 7:06 a.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 4 seconds

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Abraham Maslows psychology of human needs

Published: Feb. 25, 2021, 7:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 31 seconds

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The Kalevala: the Finnish epic that inspired a nation

Published: Feb. 18, 2021, 7:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 21 seconds

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Sister Juana, a great mind of Mexico

Published: Feb. 11, 2021, 7:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 48 seconds

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Mermaids: Tales from the deep

Published: Feb. 4, 2021, 10 a.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 56 seconds

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Eleusinian Mysteries: Secret ceremonies promising happiness

Published: Jan. 28, 2021, 7:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 30 seconds

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Toussaint LOuverture: Hero of the Haitian slave rebellion

Published: Jan. 21, 2021, 4 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 24 seconds

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Olympe de Gouges: Frances forgotten revolutionary heroine

Published: Jan. 14, 2021, 10 a.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 23 seconds

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Alexandre Yersin and the race to fight the plague

Published: Jan. 7, 2021, 7:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 34 seconds

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Famous hats in history

Published: Dec. 31, 2020, 7:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 35 seconds

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Mugham: the sound of Azerbaijan

Published: Dec. 24, 2020, 7:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 29 seconds

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The Kingdom of Aksum: Africa's trading empire

Published: Dec. 17, 2020, 10 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 3 seconds

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Umm Kulthum: Egypts singing superstar

Published: Dec. 10, 2020, 12:25 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 32 seconds

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Alexandre Dumas: The man behind the Musketeers

Published: Dec. 3, 2020, 7:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 20 seconds

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Unlocking the mysteries of cuneiform tablets

Published: Nov. 26, 2020, 10 a.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 19 seconds

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First impressions: The printing press

Published: Nov. 19, 2020, 7:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 46 seconds

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The woman whose cells changed medical history

Published: Nov. 12, 2020, 10 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 57 seconds

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Comenius, a pioneer of lifelong learning

Published: Nov. 5, 2020, 7:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 46 seconds

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Dido of Carthage: A love story gone wrong

Published: Oct. 29, 2020, 7:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 35 seconds

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Paul Robeson: Singer, actor and civil rights activist

Published: Oct. 22, 2020, 6:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 29 seconds

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Telling the time: From sundials to satnav

Published: Oct. 15, 2020, 6:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 58 seconds

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Writer Jorge Luis Borges: Mixing the magical with the mundane

Published: Oct. 8, 2020, 6:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 36 seconds

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Elizabeth Fry: 'The angel of prisons'

Published: Oct. 1, 2020, 8 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 56 seconds

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The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre

Published: Sept. 24, 2020, 11:40 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 20 seconds

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Queen Tamar: The myth of a perfect ruler

Published: Sept. 17, 2020, 6:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 40 seconds

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Who were the Huguenots?

Published: Sept. 10, 2020, 8:06 a.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 31 seconds

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Smallpox: The defeat of the speckled monster

Published: Sept. 3, 2020, 6:06 a.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 19 seconds

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Lal Ded, mystical Kashmiri poet

Published: Aug. 27, 2020, 6:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 29 seconds

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Secrets of the Great Pyramid

Published: Aug. 20, 2020, 6:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 52 seconds

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Ray Bradbury, a master of science fiction

Published: Aug. 13, 2020, 6:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 40 seconds

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The Fall of the Roman Empire

Published: Aug. 6, 2020, 6:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 40 seconds

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Picasso, artist of reinvention

Published: July 30, 2020, 6:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 26 seconds

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Tolstoy: War and Peace

Published: July 23, 2020, 6:06 a.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 15 seconds

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Chaucer, father of English poetry

Published: July 16, 2020, 6:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 30 seconds

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Up close with tango

Published: July 9, 2020, 6:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 21 seconds

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Valkyries: Fierce women of war

Published: July 2, 2020, 6:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 12 seconds

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Silk routes: 2000 years of trading

Published: June 25, 2020, 6:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 41 seconds

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Bertha von Suttner: A champion of peace

Published: June 18, 2020, 6:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 41 seconds

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Joan of Arc: Making a martyr

Published: June 11, 2020, 6:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 25 seconds

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Babylon, city of wonders

Published: June 4, 2020, 6:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 38 seconds

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Aesop and the Fables

Published: May 28, 2020, 6:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 54 seconds

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Goethe: The story of colour

Published: May 21, 2020, 6:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 48 seconds

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The California Gold Rush

Published: May 14, 2020, 6:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 42 seconds

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The 1918 Spanish Flu: The mother of all pandemics

Published: April 30, 2020, 6:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 54 seconds

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Gerard Mercator: The man who revolutionised mapmaking

Published: April 23, 2020, 6:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 26 seconds

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Gretta Cousins: champion of Irish and Indian women

Published: April 16, 2020, 6:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 34 seconds

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Natsume Soseki: Japans great novelist

Published: April 9, 2020, 6:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 29 seconds

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In search of the good life: Epicurus and his philosophy

Published: April 2, 2020, 6:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 17 seconds

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Artemisia Gentileschi: The painter who took on the men

Published: March 26, 2020, 9:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 54 seconds

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Guide dogs for the blind: A history

Published: March 19, 2020, 7:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 45 seconds

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Oscar Niemeyer: Brazil's king of curves

Published: March 12, 2020, 7:06 a.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 14 seconds

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Haile Selassie: the last emperor of Ethiopia

Published: March 5, 2020, 7:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 29 seconds

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Emilie du Chatelet: a free-spirited physicist

Published: Feb. 27, 2020, 7:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 55 seconds

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Man v mosquito

Published: Feb. 20, 2020, 9 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 18 seconds

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The magic of bronze

Published: Feb. 13, 2020, 7:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 39 seconds

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Li Bai: The revered Chinese poet

Published: Feb. 6, 2020, 7:06 a.m.
Duration: 41 minutes

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Nefertiti: The beguiling Egyptian Queen

Published: Jan. 30, 2020, 9 a.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 52 seconds

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The amazing Dr Darwin

Published: Jan. 23, 2020, 7:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 51 seconds

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A history of honey

Published: Jan. 16, 2020, 10:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 21 seconds

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Highlife: The sound of Ghana

Published: Jan. 9, 2020, 7:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 30 seconds

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Yiddish: A story of survival

Published: Jan. 2, 2020, 7:06 a.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 12 seconds

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A history of the restaurant

Published: Dec. 26, 2019, 7:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 57 seconds

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Eleanor Roosevelt: Redefining the First Lady

Published: Dec. 19, 2019, 9 a.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 28 seconds

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Ibn Khaldun: 14th Century sage

Published: Dec. 12, 2019, 7:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 41 seconds

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Cyrano de Bergerac: Big-nosed hero

Published: Dec. 5, 2019, 9:50 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 16 seconds

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The Scythians: Masters of the steppe

Published: Nov. 28, 2019, 7:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 34 seconds

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The Russian civil war: How the Soviets rose to power

Published: Nov. 21, 2019, 7:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 51 seconds

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Fridtjof Nansen: Norway's great explorer

Published: Nov. 14, 2019, 7:06 a.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 23 seconds

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Rudolf Nureyev: Superstar Russian dancer

Published: Nov. 7, 2019, 7:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 2 seconds

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John Harvey Kellogg: The wellness pioneer

Published: Oct. 31, 2019, 7:06 a.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 57 seconds

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Indigo: the bluest blue

Published: Oct. 24, 2019, 6:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 43 seconds

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The Cat: In from the wild

Published: Oct. 17, 2019, 6:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 9 seconds

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Manuela Saenz: South Americas revolutionary heroine

Published: Oct. 10, 2019, 6:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 4 seconds

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Electric telegraph: the first worldwide web

Published: Oct. 3, 2019, 6:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 4 seconds

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The history of opium

Published: Sept. 26, 2019, 8:45 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 24 seconds

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Albert Camus: Embracing lifes absurdity

Published: Sept. 19, 2019, 6:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 40 seconds

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Fernando Pessoa: The man who multiplied himself

Published: Sept. 5, 2019, 8:30 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 59 seconds

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Einstein: Revolution in time and space

Published: Aug. 29, 2019, 8:30 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 19 seconds

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Imhotep: The man behind The Mummy

Published: Aug. 22, 2019, 8:30 a.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 49 seconds

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Andy Warhol: The prince of Pop Art

Published: Aug. 15, 2019, 8:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 27 seconds

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Coco Chanel: French style icon

Published: Aug. 8, 2019, 8:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 30 seconds

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Nineteen Eighty-Four: Orwell's dystopian classic

Published: Aug. 1, 2019, 8:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 46 seconds

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The Spartans: Ancient Greeces fighting machine

Published: July 25, 2019, 8:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 26 seconds

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Leeuwenhoek: The fabric seller who discovered bacteria

Published: July 18, 2019, 6:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 33 seconds

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Kafka's The Metamorphosis: A man turns into a monstrous bug

Published: July 11, 2019, 8:06 a.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 12 seconds

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Hugh Masekela: The iconic South African musician

Published: July 4, 2019, 8:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 28 seconds

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James Watt: The power of steam

Published: June 27, 2019, 6:06 a.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 39 seconds

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The Bhagavad Gita: A guide to spiritual wisdom

Published: June 20, 2019, 8:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 17 seconds

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Cnut: England's Viking king

Published: June 13, 2019, 8:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 24 seconds

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How Afghanistan won its freedom from Britain

Published: June 6, 2019, 6:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 57 seconds

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Rasputin: The Siberian mystic who charmed the Tsar

Published: May 30, 2019, 8:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 47 seconds

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The Moon from Earth

Published: May 23, 2019, 8:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 35 seconds

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Pearls: Treasures of the sea

Published: May 16, 2019, 8:06 a.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 12 seconds

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Thoreau: the writer who went to the woods

Published: May 9, 2019, 8:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 58 seconds

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Fado: Portuguese soul music

Published: May 2, 2019, 8:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 39 seconds

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Queen Njinga of Angola: Fearless fighter

Published: April 25, 2019, 6:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 37 seconds

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Inside the mind of Leonardo da Vinci

Published: April 18, 2019, 8:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 25 seconds

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Chess: a chequered history

Published: April 11, 2019, 8:06 a.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 11 seconds

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Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas

Published: April 4, 2019, 6:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 36 seconds

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Napoleon: From empire to exile

Published: March 28, 2019, 9:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 42 seconds

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The spice trade: Selling the scents of luxury

Published: March 21, 2019, 9:06 a.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 11 seconds

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Moomin Creator Tove Jansson

Published: March 14, 2019, 9:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 25 seconds

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Anaesthesia: Unwrapping oblivion

Published: March 7, 2019, 9:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 10 seconds

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Calouste Gulbenkian: The architect of Middle East oil

Published: March 1, 2019, 12:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 35 seconds

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Robinson Crusoe: The man and his island

Published: Feb. 21, 2019, 9:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 15 seconds

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Lu Xun: Writing the story of New China

Published: Feb. 14, 2019, 7:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 34 seconds

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The talking drums of West Africa

Published: Feb. 7, 2019, 9:06 a.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 12 seconds

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The Top of the World

Published: Jan. 31, 2019, 9:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 13 seconds

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The Heel and the Sneaker

Published: Jan. 24, 2019, 7:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 38 seconds

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Goya: Seeking truth through art

Published: Jan. 17, 2019, 9:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 33 seconds

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Antigone: A drama of defiance

Published: Jan. 10, 2019, 9:06 a.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 4 seconds

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The Master and Margarita: Devilish satire

Published: Jan. 3, 2019, 9:06 a.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 31 seconds

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Fermentation: Ancient Food Alchemy

Published: Dec. 27, 2018, 9:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 41 seconds

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The Emergence of Modern Turkey

Published: Dec. 20, 2018, 9:06 a.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 9 seconds

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: Revealing the Gulag

Published: Dec. 13, 2018, 7:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 59 seconds

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The Iranian Coup of 1953: Overthrow of a Prime Minister

Published: Dec. 6, 2018, 9:06 a.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 58 seconds

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Diaghilev and the ballet revolution

Published: Nov. 29, 2018, 9:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 39 seconds

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Charlie Chaplin

Published: Nov. 22, 2018, 7:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 53 seconds

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Coal: a Burning Legacy

Published: Nov. 15, 2018, 9:06 a.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 3 seconds

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Lifting the lid: The history of the toilet

Published: Nov. 8, 2018, 9:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 15 seconds

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Calm in the chaos: The story of the Stoics

Published: Nov. 1, 2018, 7:06 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 2 seconds

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Cambodia's ancient Khmer Empire

Published: Oct. 27, 2018, 2:06 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 31 seconds

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Who was the real Cleopatra?

Published: Oct. 20, 2018, 7:06 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 47 seconds

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Karl Kraus: Austrias fearless satirist

Published: Oct. 13, 2018, 2:06 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 33 seconds

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Cool: Sunglasses, style and American counter-culture

Published: Oct. 6, 2018, 7:06 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 54 seconds

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Frida Kahlo: A life in colour

Published: Sept. 29, 2018, 2:06 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 13 seconds

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The Jet Engine

Published: Sept. 22, 2018, 7:06 p.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 1 second

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Edgar Allan Poe: Master of horror

Published: Sept. 15, 2018, 7:06 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 47 seconds

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The Making of Modern Japan

Published: Sept. 8, 2018, 7:06 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 38 seconds

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The American author James Baldwin

Published: Sept. 1, 2018, 7:06 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 26 seconds

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The Acropolis: Cradle of democracy

Published: Aug. 25, 2018, 7:06 p.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 1 second

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Friedrich Engels: The Man Behind Karl Marx

Published: Aug. 18, 2018, 2:06 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 56 seconds

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Empress Nur Jahan: Leader of the Mughals

Published: Aug. 11, 2018, 7:06 p.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 56 seconds

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Waiting for Godot: The play that changed the rules of theatre

Published: Aug. 4, 2018, 7:06 p.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 3 seconds

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Christina of Sweden: Queen of surprises

Published: July 28, 2018, 2:06 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 33 seconds

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Vincent van Gogh: The struggling artist

Published: July 21, 2018, 7:06 p.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 40 seconds

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Mark Twain: The 'father of American literature'

Published: July 14, 2018, 7:06 p.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 4 seconds

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Pioneers of surgical hygiene

Published: July 7, 2018, 7:06 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 30 seconds

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The invention of numbers

Published: June 30, 2018, 7:06 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 16 seconds

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The life and works of William Blake

Published: June 23, 2018, 7:06 p.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 50 seconds

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J. William Fulbright: Scholarships and Soft Power

Published: June 16, 2018, 7:06 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 52 seconds

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The tales of Timbuktu

Published: June 9, 2018, 7:06 p.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 35 seconds

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The piano: Hitting the right keys

Published: June 2, 2018, 7:06 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 56 seconds

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Simone de Beauvoir: Feminist thinker for modern times

Published: May 26, 2018, 7:06 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 46 seconds

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Catherine the Great of Russia

Published: May 19, 2018, 7:06 p.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 6 seconds

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Material World: Making the Modern Factory

Published: May 12, 2018, 7:06 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 31 seconds

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Machu Picchu: The secrets of a forgotten city

Published: May 5, 2018, 7:06 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 53 seconds

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Plastic: How it Changed the World

Published: April 28, 2018, 7:06 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 59 seconds

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Sugar: A Sweet Menace

Published: April 21, 2018, 7:06 p.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 11 seconds

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What is Zoroastrianism?

Published: April 14, 2018, 7:06 p.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 4 seconds

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Votes for Women: the Global Story

Published: April 10, 2018, 11:54 a.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 28 seconds

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From Straw Poll to Opinion Poll

Published: March 30, 2018, 7:06 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 15 seconds

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Lawrence of Arabia

Published: March 24, 2018, 8:06 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 55 seconds

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Yves Saint Laurent: Fashion revolutionary

Published: March 17, 2018, 9 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 58 seconds

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Herman Melville: Moby Dick

Published: March 10, 2018, 8:06 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 41 seconds

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The original Goths

Published: March 3, 2018, 8:06 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 39 seconds

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Dantes Inferno: The poetry of Hell

Published: Feb. 24, 2018, 8:06 p.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 7 seconds

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Magellan: First Man Round the Globe?

Published: Feb. 17, 2018, 8:06 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 33 seconds

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The Little Prince: Lessons from an aviators life

Published: Feb. 10, 2018, 8:06 p.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 31 seconds

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Chinua Achebe: Rewriting the African story

Published: Feb. 3, 2018, 8:06 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 34 seconds

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Boudica: Warrior queen

Published: Jan. 29, 2018, 1:58 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 35 seconds

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The alphabet of chemistry

Published: Jan. 20, 2018, 3:06 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 9 seconds

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Kubla Khan: A vision in a dream

Published: Jan. 13, 2018, 8:06 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 59 seconds

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The story of Evita

Published: Jan. 6, 2018, 8:06 p.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 38 seconds

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Flamenco: Darkness and light

Published: Dec. 30, 2017, 8:06 p.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 50 seconds

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Sankara: Africas Revolutionary President

Published: Dec. 23, 2017, 8 p.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 8 seconds

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Cotton: a Yarn with a Twist

Published: Dec. 16, 2017, 8:06 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 34 seconds

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Life Support: The Story of the Red Cross

Published: Dec. 11, 2017, 9 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 49 seconds

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Stanislavsky: Founder of modern acting

Published: Dec. 2, 2017, 8:06 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 52 seconds

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Nikola Teslas electric dreams

Published: Nov. 25, 2017, 3:40 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 38 seconds

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Adam Smith: Father of Capitalism

Published: Nov. 20, 2017, 9 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 47 seconds

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The First Skyscrapers

Published: Nov. 13, 2017, 9 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 17 seconds

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Rain or shine? A short history of the weather forecast

Published: Nov. 6, 2017, 8:01 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 49 seconds

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The Reformation: A World Divided

Published: Oct. 30, 2017, 9 a.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 29 seconds

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Detroit: Migration Motors & Music

Published: Oct. 21, 2017, 7:06 p.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 2 seconds

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The Real Pirates of the Caribbean

Published: Oct. 14, 2017, 7:15 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 43 seconds

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Rumi: Sufi poet of love

Published: Oct. 9, 2017, 8 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 26 seconds

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The story of the guitar

Published: Oct. 2, 2017, 12:45 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 57 seconds

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The rise and fall of Julius Caesar

Published: Sept. 25, 2017, 8 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 39 seconds

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Bram Stoker's Dracula

Published: Sept. 19, 2017, 12:51 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 33 seconds

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The first heart transplant

Published: Aug. 28, 2017, 8 a.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 9 seconds

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Total eclipse of the Sun

Published: Aug. 7, 2017, 8 a.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 9 seconds

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Carl Linnaeus: Naming nature

Published: July 10, 2017, 8:10 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 41 seconds

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Silk Routes: Two Thousand Years of Trading

Published: July 1, 2017, 2:06 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 46 seconds

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Indian Princely States

Published: June 27, 2017, 12:22 p.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 12 seconds

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The Creation of Modern Canada

Published: June 19, 2017, 8 a.m.
Duration: 40 minutes

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Childhood: From Toddlers to Teenagers

Published: June 12, 2017, 7:01 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 53 seconds

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Arthur Conan Doyle: The man behind Sherlock Holmes

Published: June 5, 2017, 8 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 47 seconds

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Taiwan: An Island History

Published: May 15, 2017, 8 a.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 2 seconds

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Amelia Earhart: Trailblazer in the skies

Published: May 8, 2017, 7:01 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 44 seconds

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How the metre changed the world

Published: May 1, 2017, 7:01 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 50 seconds

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Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland

Published: April 24, 2017, 8:01 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 46 seconds

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The Belle Epoque: A Golden Age?

Published: April 17, 2017, 8 a.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 14 seconds

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The KGB: Secrets and Spies

Published: March 27, 2017, 8 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 46 seconds

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Marie Curie: A pioneering life

Published: March 13, 2017, 9 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 42 seconds

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Beethoven: The genius rule breaker

Published: March 6, 2017, 2:19 p.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 22 seconds

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Yellow fever: Man against mosquito

Published: Feb. 27, 2017, 8:01 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 56 seconds

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The real story of Frankenstein

Published: Feb. 20, 2017, 9 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 33 seconds

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The birth of hip hop

Published: Feb. 13, 2017, 8:01 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 37 seconds

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Seven Samurai: A Japanese masterpiece

Published: Feb. 4, 2017, 9 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 42 seconds

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Mata Hari: Dancer, lover, spy

Published: Jan. 23, 2017, 9 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 37 seconds

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The Silicon Chip: A Tech Revolution

Published: Jan. 16, 2017, 9 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 49 seconds

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The Powers of the American President

Published: Jan. 9, 2017, 8:01 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 58 seconds

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Fela Kuti: King of Afrobeat

Published: Jan. 2, 2017, 8:01 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 47 seconds

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Cali-topia: a New Vision of Thomas More's Utopia?

Published: Dec. 26, 2016, 8:01 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 54 seconds

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Utopia: Mr More’s Wondrous Islands

Published: Dec. 21, 2016, 5 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 27 seconds

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Thomas More's Utopia

Published: Dec. 19, 2016, 8:01 a.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 29 seconds

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Winner or Cheat? Doping in Sport

Published: Dec. 12, 2016, 8:01 a.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 15 seconds

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The Iliad: Beauty, brutes and battles

Published: Dec. 5, 2016, 8:01 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 48 seconds

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Korea: Two Countries, One Past

Published: Nov. 26, 2016, 8:01 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 50 seconds

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Unpicking the UN

Published: Nov. 21, 2016, 8:01 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 58 seconds

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Drones and their Impact on the World

Published: Nov. 14, 2016, 8 a.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 20 seconds

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DNA: The code for making life

Published: Nov. 7, 2016, 8:01 a.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 17 seconds

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The new curators: Who decides what’s culturally important?

Published: Nov. 1, 2016, 11 a.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 32 seconds

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Do we Need Artificial Intelligence?

Published: Oct. 24, 2016, 7:01 a.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 25 seconds

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Concrete: Foundation of the modern world

Published: Oct. 17, 2016, 7 a.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 23 seconds

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Why Are We Generous?

Published: Oct. 10, 2016, 7 a.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 30 seconds

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Reducing Urban Poverty

Published: Oct. 3, 2016, 7:01 a.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 13 seconds

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Using Other People’s Water

Published: Sept. 26, 2016, 7:01 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 49 seconds

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How Shyness and Introversion can be a Strength

Published: Sept. 19, 2016, 7:01 a.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 28 seconds

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Turmoil Around the World and in Ourselves

Published: Sept. 12, 2016, 7 a.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 35 seconds

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Underground: How Deep Can Life Survive?

Published: Sept. 5, 2016, 7:01 a.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 41 seconds

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Fire: How Climate Change is Altering our Attitudes to Wildfires

Published: Aug. 29, 2016, 7:01 a.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 42 seconds

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What is the Best Way to Deal with Anxiety?

Published: Aug. 22, 2016, 7:01 a.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 32 seconds

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Image overload: Coping with the modern world's visual clutter

Published: Aug. 15, 2016, 7:01 a.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 40 seconds

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Balloons and How they Changed the World

Published: Aug. 8, 2016, 7:01 a.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 32 seconds

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Sharing and Why it is Essential for the Human Race

Published: Aug. 1, 2016, 7:01 a.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 36 seconds

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The Unpredictable Planet: Understanding Volcanoes and Earthquakes

Published: July 25, 2016, 7:01 a.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 3 seconds

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Do You Know What You’re Eating?

Published: July 18, 2016, 7:01 a.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 22 seconds

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Radioactivity: Friend or Foe?

Published: July 11, 2016, 7:01 a.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 16 seconds

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Defiance: Why Are Some People More Defiant than Others?

Published: July 4, 2016, 7:01 a.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 41 seconds

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Microbes and Humans: The Science of Living Together

Published: June 27, 2016, 7:01 a.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 40 seconds

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Unfinished: The Art of the Incomplete

Published: June 20, 2016, 7:01 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 53 seconds

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Talking Rubbish: Clever Ways with Waste

Published: June 13, 2016, 7:01 a.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 16 seconds

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Resilience: A Survivor's Guide to Adversity

Published: June 6, 2016, 7:01 a.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 8 seconds

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When Does Healthy Competition Become Destructive?

Published: May 30, 2016, 7:01 a.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 25 seconds

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After Dark: How we Respond to Darkness

Published: May 23, 2016, 7:01 a.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 28 seconds

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Brain Drain: Can We Stem the Flow?

Published: May 16, 2016, 7:01 a.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 28 seconds

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Wheel Revolutions

Published: May 9, 2016, 7:01 a.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 40 seconds

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Rules and how they govern us

Published: May 2, 2016, 7:01 a.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 26 seconds

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Balance: How we Find Equilibrium

Published: April 25, 2016, 7:01 a.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 35 seconds

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Lost and Found

Published: April 16, 2016, 2:07 p.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 26 seconds

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A Single World, Many Identities?

Published: April 11, 2016, 7:01 a.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 24 seconds

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Living at the Edge: Life in Extreme Environments

Published: April 6, 2016, 12:30 p.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 32 seconds

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Taming Nature

Published: March 30, 2016, 12:41 p.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 42 seconds

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